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With Father’s Day coming June 21, a couple of Catholic organizations are taking steps to ensure that fathers get the recognition they deserve.

As part of its efforts to reduce poverty, Catholic Charities USA is allowing people to send an e-card to thank their father or someone they respect as a father figure while also making a donation to the organization.

Contributions received through the program will help Catholic Charities USA help low-income dads and strengthen families by helping reduce some of the challenges that force kids into poverty. A dozen different designs are available, including two in Spanish.

Catholic Charities says all card recipients will be remembered by Father Larry Snyder, Catholic Charities USA president, when he celebrates Mass in Rome on Father’s Day.

Over at the Fathers for Good Web site sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, three new videos offer reflections and commentaries on fatherhood by three prominent Catholics. Excerpts from the videos show up when viewers enter the site. The full videos featuring Raymond Arroyo of EWTN, author Scott Hahn and Robert George, professor of jurisprudence and director of the James Madison program in American ideals and institutions at Princeton University, can be seen by clicking on them while the excerpts play.